By Hedelberto L\u00f3pez Blanch<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The example of sovereignty that the Cuban people and government have given to the world is the greatest threat to the decadent but criminal US empire, now led by the fascist and convicted President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The dictatorship established in the United States after the rise to power of a millionaire and neo-fascist elite cannot allow the model of a small island to prevail in Latin America. This island has provided selfless support in recent decades to nations suffering from natural disasters or diseases, despite enduring an illegal economic, commercial, and financial blockade that has lasted for more than 60 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This paradigm of Cuba is what they want to destroy by any means, and above all, they want to isolate the island and try to starve its people to death, as the then Spanish Captain General Valeriano Weyler attempted to do by establishing concentration camps against the Cuban population and preventing them from helping the heroic Mambises, an action that caused the death of more than 200,000 civilians from hunger and disease between 1896 and 1898.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trump signed an executive order this Thursday declaring a \u201cnational emergency,\u201d based on the supposed \u201cthreat\u201d that Cuba represents to his country and the rest of the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A declaration that is logically absurd and incomprehensible to the world, since the island has no weapons or military resources that could attack Washington, but it does have an unquestionable moral authority to confront these lies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The document authorizes the mythomaniac Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, and Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, \u201cto take all necessary measures to implement a system of tariffs and related measures\u201d against countries that sell or supply oil to Cuba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is the Donroe Doctrine, Trump\u2019s adaptation of the Monroe Doctrine, which proclaimed \u201cAmerica for the Americans,\u201d meaning America for the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The White House\u2019s new measures seek to intensify the blockade against the country\u2019s economy and cause more human suffering, since preventing oil from entering the island would paralyze medical services, electricity, transportation, industries, and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On his Twitter account, Cuban President Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel Berm\u00fadez denounced: \u201cThis new measure demonstrates the fascist, criminal, and genocidal nature of a cabal that has hijacked the interests of the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Under a mendacious and baseless pretext, peddled by those who profit from the suffering of our people, President Trump intends to strangle the Cuban economy by imposing tariffs on countries that sovereignly trade oil with Cuba.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the same vein, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodr\u00edguez Parrilla stated: \u201cWe denounce before the world this brutal act of aggression against Cuba and its people, who for more than 65 years have been subjected to the longest and cruelest economic blockade ever imposed on an entire nation, and whom the US now promises to subject to extreme living conditions. The United States is also resorting to blackmail and coercion to try to force other countries to join its universally condemned blockade policy, threatening them with arbitrary and abusive tariffs if they refuse, in violation of all the principles of free trade.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For his part, Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fern\u00e1ndez de Cossio declared: \u201cIf this demand is accepted, it will inaugurate a new and grotesque chapter of global subservience, opening a dangerous path whose destination is unknown and from which no state with any notion of sovereignty can feel safe. The effect extends beyond Cuba\u2019s borders, although it is our people who have long faced, with stoicism, the cruel and criminal economic war waged by imperialism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cuba, which for more than half a century has served and shared its medical, educational, and social development with many nations of the world and has even offered the blood of its children to save other peoples from colonialism, neocolonialism, and apartheid, now needs the world\u2019s solidarity to confront the enormous onslaught launched against the island by the most rapacious empire that has ever existed on Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The morale and prestige of the Cuban Revolution prevail against the fallacious arguments wielded by an ultraright-wing and fascist elite that currently dominates US politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Once again, with stoicism and dignity, the revolutionary government, together with its people, will confront new imperial threats, but Cuba will not be alone in this battle, and the peoples of the world will also know how to defend it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(*) Hedelberto L\u00f3pez Blanch is a renowned Cuban journalist. He writes for the newspaper Juventud Rebelde and the weekly Opciones. He is the author of \u201cCuban Emigration to the United States,\u201d \u201cSecret Stories of Cuban Doctors in Africa,\u201d and \u201cMiami, Dirty Money,\u201d among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SPECIAL THANKS TO THE AUTHOR: Hedelberto L\u00f3pez Blanch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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